Gareth Porter joins the show to explain the latest event being sold as evidence for the need to attack Iran. Evidenceless as usual, the claim that Iran is behind the sabotage of Saudi ships is based only on the fact that they had motive to do it. Porter's theory? This...
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6/10/19 Patrick Eddington on the US Spying Apparatus
by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Patrick Eddington about the surveillance of U.S. citizens and the legislation that allows it. Although the USA Freedom Act ostensibly rolls back the NSA's metadata program, it really only tweaks a technicality of whom the organization allowed to spy...
6/10/19 Jim Bovard on Obama’s Forgotten Frauds and Debacles
by Scott Horton | Jun 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard reflects on the legacy of Barack Obama's presidency in light of Donald Trump's. Obama is garnering favorable comparisons now, explains Bovard, but we shouldn't forget all of the horrible things he did, especially on civil liberties and foreign wars. The...
6/10/19 Doug Bandow on the Threats of War in Europe and Asia
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about North Korea, China, Russia, and the rest of eastern Europe. Bandow holds out hope for the negotiations with North Korea, but fears the dangerous rhetoric coming from neoconservatives about America's relationship with China. They are...
6/7/19 Eli Clifton on Israeli Money in American Politics
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton discusses the influence of the Israel lobby over American politics. Even for President Trump, who famously claimed he didn't need money from big donors, Israeli and Jewish-American money is important because it can win congressional elections, and Trump...
6/7/19 William Astore on the Ten Tenets of Air Power
by Scott Horton | Jun 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews William Astore about his recent TomDispatch piece on American air power. Astore, a retired Air Force officer, explains what he was and was not taught about bombing as a strategy in war, most notably the fact that the perception of the U.S. military by...
6/7/19 Joe Lauria on the Dangerous Precedent of the Assange Indictment
by Scott Horton | Jun 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria discusses the dangerous legal precedent set by the case against Julian Assange, whose actions in leaking government documents are not categorically different from those of a journalist. As Glenn Greenwald points out, there's no "license" that makes someone...
5/31/19 Mike Swanson on Trump’s Trade War and the Current Bubble
by Scott Horton | Jun 4, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Swanson joins Scott to talk about President Trump's latest tariff announcement against Mexico. Trump and his team may think these trade policies are good for the economy, says Swanson, but they may also just be using the trade war as a way to shift blame...
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